Fast-Food Kids
Subtitle: French Fries, Lunch Lines and Social Ties
Publisher: NYU Press; New York University Press
Published: Feb 28, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781479842704
Description: The book provides a thorough account of the role that food plays in the lives of today’s youth, teasing out the many contradictions of food as a cultural object—fast food portrayed as a necessity for the poor and yet, reviled by upper-middle class parents; fast food restaurants as one of the few spaces that kids can claim and effectively ‘take over’ for several hours each day; food corporations spending millions each year to market their food to kids and to lobby Congress against regulations; schools struggling to deliver healthy food young people will actually eat, and the difficulty of arranging family dinners, which are known to promote family cohesion and stability. -- amazon.com
Notes: Source title: Fast-Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines and Social Ties (Critical Perspectives on Youth)